THE CONTINUING SAGA OF LAURENT (OF ARABIA) MURAWIEC
The Rand analyst whose PowerPoint rocked the Pentagon returns to the news.
Jack Shafer, Slate.com, 8/27/02
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070190
Rand Corp. analyst Laurent Murawiec, who set off an international incident
three weeks ago when the Washington Post reported the substance of an
anti-Saudi briefing he gave in July to the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board,
seems to have stepped in it again. On Aug. 13, the Dubai news site ITP.net
quoted extensively from a telephone interview Murawiec purportedly gave to
Arabian Business reporter Massoud Derhally. According to Derhally's story,
"Potent words, softly spoken, rock Saudi-U.S. relations," Murawiec said
that a gag order prevented him from talking about the Pentagon briefing but
offered these observations about the Saudis and the Arab world:
My experience of your part of the world is that most people hate the
Saudis' guts, not to make too fine a point about it. Everybody knows they
are a bunch of lazy assholes that are arrogant, too big for their shoes,
which behave in a consistently disgusting manner. People in your region
have told me that for 20 years. But I am not telling you anything new.
A week later in an Agence France-Presse news story, Murawiec denied the
statements attributed to him. "I gave no interview neither to that guy ...
nor to anybody. The whole story is spurious and void," Murawiec said.
IPT.net responded immediately with a story, "Taped interview exposes lies
from U.S. analyst," which included this Windows Media sound recording of
the purported interview to prove Murawiec talked to them.
Does the voice on the recording belong to Murawiec? Murawiec deflected
Slate's query to a spokesperson at Rand, where he still works, and the
spokesperson said the think tank's only comment was this statement released
last week by Murawiec's boss, Rand President James Thompson: "The comments
on the tape recording on the website ITP.net are offensive and repugnant,
and Rand repudiates them in the strongest terms. Rand was unaware of these
comments until they were reported by ITP.net."
Rand President Thompson's "strongest terms," which neither confirm nor deny
that the voice is Murawiec's, surely take the "think" out of "think tank…"
The only good news falling on Murawiec these days is the bad news posted on
the Web by his former colleagues at the paranoid political organization
headed by convicted felon and perpetual presidential candidate Lyndon H.
LaRouche Jr.
To capture the full warp and woof of the LaRouchies' barking mad
denunciations, try this:
Murawiec first showed his emerging corruption when he opposed the March
1986 publication of EIR's thoroughly documented special report, Moscow's
Secret Weapon: Ariel Sharon and the Israeli Mafia. This 126-page report
highlighted Sharon's U.S. organized-crime-connected backers who ran the
infamous Israeli spy in the U.S. Defense Department, Jonathan Pollard.
Highly classified material stolen by Pollard was used in Israeli "U.S.
secrets-for-Jewish-emigres" trades with the kind of Soviet KGB elements who
later grouped around the financial oligarchs plundering post-Soviet Russia
in the 1990s.
By the late 1980s, on command, Murawiec was running an internal disruption
operation within the Wiesbaden EIR office-supervised by the same people who
promoted his subsequent career when his presence in that EIR office became
overtly untenable, in 1990…
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